Steven F. Hayward
Pepperdine University
Friday, April 24, 2015
12:00 PM Luncheon Lecture
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Freeberg Room
RSVP ehuerta@cmc.edu by Tues. Apr 21
Limited seating available
“Environment and the Constitution”
The rise of environmental regulation over the last 40 years has required the broadest of “emanations
and penumbras” in the Constitution. Discontent with many aspects of environmental regulation has
revived a number of constitutional controversies that were thought settled or closed. Making
environmental rules is more contentious than rules for other industries, and is forcing reconsideration of
several aspects of administrative government.
Steven F. Hayward, who will discuss the question of the environment and the Constitution, is currently
the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Public
Policy. From 2002 to 2012 he was the F.K Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics at the American
Enterprise Institute. He is the author of Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, published in 14
editions from 1994 – 2009, and its successor, the Almanac of Environmental Trends. Hayward is also the
author of a two-volume narrative history of Ronald Reagan and his effect on American political life, The
Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980, and The Age of Reagan: The Conservative
Counter-Revolution, 1980-1989. His other books include Churchill on Leadership, Air Quality in America,
Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Modern Statesmen, and The Politically Incorrect Guide
to the Presidents from Wilson to Obama.
Hayward holds a Ph.D from Claremont Graduate School, and writes frequently on topics that include
environmentalism, law, economics, and public policy for publications such as National Review, Reason,
The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, The Public Interest, the Claremont Review of Books, and
Policy Review. His newspaper articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and the
Wall Street Journal.